Re: [STUMP] XKB input in Stumpwm?

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Mikael Jansson <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >     Mikael Jansson <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >     > In Ubuntu I added my custom Swedish xkbd by patching the system
> >     > keyboard settings in /usr/share/X11/xkb/{symbols/se,rules/
> >     evdev.xml}.
> >     > It then works with the standard Xorg keyboard switching
> >     utilities. I
> >     > use GNOME together with StumpWM but that should not make a
> >     > difference.
> >
> >     Where do you specify the group toggle? My custom us layout and
> >     the
> >     colemak variant are all under /usr/share/X11/xkb, but Arch tells
> >     you to set
> >     keyboard options in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Where do you set yours?
> >
>
> Hmm, we might be doing different things, then. My alterations to layout
> files (equivalent to what you're doing below) all work just fine. It's
> switching between variants that doesn't work. By switching I mean having
> something like:
>
> setxkbmap -options grp:shifts_toggle
>
> or
>
> Section "InputClass"
>         ...
>         Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle"
> EndSection
>
> So that you can shift between layouts on the fly. I'll try switching
> my setup to using .xinitrc instead of the X11 conf dir, and see if that
> makes any difference.
>

Oh, I see. I use the GNOME keyboard applet which lets me switch between
"Swedish" and "Swedish (Pworak)" - that works without issues. Maybe you
could check the source code for the keyboard switcher applet?

- Micke

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